The Didi-Huberman Dictionary - Philosophical Dictionaries by Magdalena Zolkos Hardcover

About the Book

The Didi-Huberman Dictionary is a specialized introduction to the thought of contemporary French philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman, best known for his path-breaking philosophy of image and for his impact on the 'visual turn' in theoretical humanities.

Book Synopsis

The Didi-Huberman Dictionary is a specialized introduction to the thought of contemporary French philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman, best known for his path-breaking philosophy of image and for his impact on the 'visual turn' in theoretical humanities.
With over 150 entries, including 125 main entries, the dictionary is a useful research tool for students coming to Didi-Huberman's work for the first time. Entries range from Theodor Adorno and Anthropology through to Materiality and Memory and on to Aby Warburg and Witnessing. Researchers already familiar with his work, but who want to develop a multi-faceted and more comprehensive understanding of the philosophical and cultural references woven into his thought, will gain deeper knowledge of the nuances of his conceptual apparatus, given the interreferential and intertextual aspects of his work.
The dictionary identifies and explains his key figures, inspirations and philosophical metaphors as well as introduces Didi-Huberman's polemics with other contemporary philosophers, including Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Rancière. Entries on concepts and motifs from Didi-Huberman's major texts that are (as of yet) not translated into English - Ce que nous voyons, ce qui nous regarde (1992), and Ninfa moderna (2002) - are also included.
This is your one-stop, go-to resource for learning more about the innovative, exciting work of Georges Didi-Huberman.

From the Back Cover

A comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of Georges Didi-Huberman in dictionary form The Didi-Huberman Dictionary is a specialised introduction to the thought of contemporary French philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman, best known for his path-breaking philosophy of image and his impact on the fields of art historiography, aesthetic philosophy and cultural theory of psychoanalysis. With 85 entries written by 30 leading international scholars, the dictionary is a useful tool for students coming to Didi-Huberman's work for the first time. It identifies and explains his key figures, inspirations and philosophical metaphors, as well as introducing Didi-Huberman's polemics with other contemporary philosophers, including Aby Warburg, Sigmund Freud and Walter Benjamin. Entries on concepts and motifs from Didi-Huberman's major texts that are not, as of yet, translated into English - Ce que nous voyons, ce qui nous regarde (1992), and Ninfa moderna (2002) - are also included. Magdalena Zolkos is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland.

Review Quotes

This extraordinary glossary leverages the power of interdisciplinary research in art and human sciences, and invites the reader to consider the beauty of these disciplines by embracing multiple genres in and about the work of philosopher, thinker, poet Georges Didi-Huberman.

-- "Barbara Baert, KU Leuven"

About the Author

Magdalena Zolkos is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at University of Jyväskylä and, previously, Humboldt Research Fellow at Goethe University in the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform. She is the author of Restitution and the Politics of Repair: Tropes, Imaginaries, Theory (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), co-editor of Contemporary Perspectives on Vladimir Jankélévitch: On What Cannot Be Touched (Lexington Press, 2019) and co-editor of a special issue of Angelaki on Witnessing After the Human (2022).